Past Voices
First free Black settlement in U.S., long buried, is being resurrected. By Sarah Enelow-Snyder / Wash Post
The Black Town Under Lake Martin: A Father & Son’s Dream Of Greatness. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
Her Name Was Ella Watson. By Salamishah Tillet / The Atlantic
Did You Know The Oldest Degree-Granting HBCU Was Founded 170 Years Ago Today? By Rayna Reid Rayford / Essence
On its 125th anniversary, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ offers lasting lessons on gentrification in Philly’s historically Black neighborhoods. By Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana and Freeden Blume Oeur / The Conversation
Historians Look Back at Life and Career of Civil Rights Activist and Representative John Lewis in New Biography. By Charlotte Phillipp / People
The Racist Origins of America’s Broken Immigration System. By Felipe De La Hoz / TNR
An Unholy Traffic: how the slave trade continued through the US civil war. By Rich Tenorio / The Guardian
Mississippi one of only four states that still celebrates Confederate Memorial Day. Why? By Grant McLaughlin / Clarion Ledger
Juneteenth or Jefferson Davis? Ala. state workers may have to choose. By Rachel Hatzipanagos / Wash Post (Image Britannica)
The Conservative Who Turned White Anxiety Into a Movement. By Ari Berman / The Atlantic
William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died. By Michael Casey / ABC News
Galvanizing the American Public, ANC and Anti-Apartheid. By Jessica Ann Levy / AAIHS
Conspiracy Theories Surrounding The Assassination Of MLK. By Bilal G. Morris / Newsone
As Civil Rights Era Fades From Memory, Generation Gap Divides Black Voters. By Maya King / NYT
The Mysterious Story Of Tituba: A Black Slave Woman Who Sparked The Salem Witch Trials.
Where Kamala Harris Lives, a Little Known History of Enslavement. By Robert Draper / NYT
A Virginia city burdened by history seeks a better future. By Theodore R. Johnson / Wash Post
